Summary
The bilious index is up in America as television commercials resort to mindless anger to sell their wares. A Snickers ad featured two plug-ugly bruisers chomping at either end of a candy bar until their lips touched and kissed accidentally and then quickly tearing clumps of hair from their chests to prove their virility.
TV "shockvertising" is now an "edgy" amalgam of someone zapped by a meteorite while waiting to disembark at his office on the moon; real car crashes; passengers are side-swiped and tossed around like crash-test dummies; a car terrorizes and attacks a lovesome pink piggy bank; everybody slaps each other hard in the face; a guy throws a rock at somebody's head; a couple driving at night pick up a hitchhiker carrying a large ax (and some beer), followed later by a second hitchhiker with a chainsaw; a sky diver sans parachute throws himself out of a plane to chase a six-pack of beer.See the full content of this document
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Sex and Video: Time Out
Civility appears to have been relegated to a quaint custom of yesteryear. Cruel and callous are traits to be admired. Mind- numbing violence is a-OK and healthy. The country came to love a murderous crime boss named Soprano. Good characters are bad ones. To ...
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